Seasonal,  Yard Art

Santa Sleigh and Reindeer yard art part 2

Reindeer yard art
Reindeer yard art

Below are pictures of us installing the sleigh on site. We used two lengths of lights to act as reigns for the reindeer and to outline the sleigh. I determined the halfway point of the first set and placed the middle light on the reindeer’s nose. Gina thought it would be a good idea to put in a red bulb. Great idea! We changed up the bulbs on the reigns so they were all green, the bulbs outlining the sleigh were assorted colors and bulbs inside the sleigh are a frost white.

 

Its quite windy in this location so we weighed down the sleigh with two concrete brick. I then attached some strapping to the reindeer feet using small 90 degree angle brackets, then weighed down the strapping with fireplace bricks. We kept the reigns fairly snug so that they don’t blow around in the wind so much.

Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art

If you haven’t already noticed, the Santa in the project we made is different from the one on the plan. In the plan, Santa stands upright and for our project we adjusted the pattern to have him sit in the sleigh. We also painted both sides of Santa. To accomplish this, once Gina traced the Santa paint lines onto one side, she took the paper template and held it up to a window with the template facing outwards. She could then trace on the back of the template while easily seeing the pattern lines from the light of the window. Then, with this mirror image now on paper, she proceeded to carbon trace the lines on the second side. Her main tips for painting is to paint the whole Santa in white, then trace the pattern onto the white because its easier to see. Then paint in the colors and finally finish with black outlines using a permanent black felt wedge tip marker.

Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa and Reindeer yard art decorations.
Santa and Reindeer yard art decorations.
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art

This last one is a bit blurry and I managed to get the truck taillights in the pic too. Not the greatest pic but I figured I’d show it anyway.

Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art
Santa sleigh and reindeer yard art

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